“Unbought and Unbossed”: Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy Inspires BIPOC Climate Justice Leaders

“Ninety-five percent of funding for environmental work goes to white-led organizations. And yet, when you see so many of the victories that have happened, they were Black- or BIPOC-led, often Black women leading the work with very little.”
Jacqueline Patterson | Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project 

Guided by its founder and executive director Jacqueline Patterson, The Chisholm Legacy Project (TCLP) provides resources and tools to frontline leaders to transform society from an extractive economy to a sustainable, living economy. TCLP is a grantee of WE LEAD, a Tides Foundation-led initiative that was established to help resource women’s grassroots leadership on the frontlines of climate disruption.

Returning Power to Those From Whom It Has Been Taken

“No amount of grant funding to address the symptoms of inequity will ever ‘fix’ the extractive and exploitative economic system from which these grants come. We must do more than grant the earnings of capitalism; we must transfer and return that wealth itself.”

Kat Taylor | Co-founder and Board Chair, Beneficial State Bank 

Kat Taylor is working to transfer and return wealth to communities that have been historically exploited and marginalized. Taylor and her partner Tom Steyer have pledged to give back 50% of their wealth during their lifetimes. She believes that now is the time to “break all the piggy banks” and focus on what we can do better together rather than apart.  READ THE STORY→

What it Takes to Build Power in Communities: Relationship Building with Empathy, Open-Mindedness, and Commitment

"In Michigan and at this moment, there’s an important opportunity to engage Black people around certain issues... We want to be a team with a solid base of working class folks, fighting for the issues they care about."
Branden Snyder | Co-executive Director of Detroit Action Education Fund

Building power within a community based on that community’s needs takes intentional, painstaking effort in relationship building. It takes open-mindedness and empathy, as well as a commitment to seeing things through. Co-executive directors Jennifer Disla and Branden Snyder, along with their teams, are doing that work at Detroit Action Education Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center. READ THE STORY→

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